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Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers, by Troyka, Lynn Quitman; Hesse, Doug
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- Copyright: 10/8/2012
Lynn Quitman Troyka, Adjunct Professor of English in the MA Program in Language and Literature at the City College (CCNY) of the City University of New York (CUNY), taught freshman English and basic writing for many years at Queensborough Community College. Dr. Troyka is a past chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC); the College Section of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE); and the Writing Division of the Modern Language Association (MLA). She has won many awards for teaching, scholarship, and service, and has conducted hundreds of faculty workshops about teaching writing and its relation to college-level reading.
Doug Hesse is Professor of English and Executive Director of Writing at the University of Denver, one of only thirty writing programs to receive the CCCC Certificate of Excellence. Dr. Hesse is a past chair of the CCCC, the nation's largest association of college writing instructors. A past president, as well, of the Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA), Dr. Hesse edited, WPA: Writing Program Administration. He has served on the NCTE executive committee, chaired the MLA Division on Teaching as a Profession, and served on the MLA Committee on Contingent Labor. Author of nearly sixty articles and book chapters, he has been named University Distinguished Scholar at the University of Denver.
Chapter 1 Ten Top Tips for College Writers
TIP 1. Be specific: use RENNS.
TIP 2. Create a personal system to record writing ideas that pop into your head.
TIP 3. If you're unsure how to approach a writing assignment, check Part 3, "Frames for Writing College Essays."
TIP 4. Stay focused on the concepts of "purpose" and "audience" throughout your writing process.
TIP 5. Weave logical, ethical, and emotional appeals into your writing.
TIP 6. Engage your readers by presenting and then complicating a topic.
TIP 7. Play the "believing game" and the "doubting game."
TIP 8. Record source information the very first time you find a source, even if you're not sure you will use it.
Tip 9. Welcome feedback about your writing.
Tip 10. Avoid slipping into "text speak" in your writing.
Chapter 2 Ten Troublesome Mistakes Writers Make
1. Sentence fragments
2. Comma splices and run-on sentences
3. Mistakes in subject-verb agreement
4. Mistakes in pronoun-antecedent agreement
5. Unclear pronoun reference
6. Illogical shifts within sentences
7. Mistakes with modifiers
8. Mistakes with homonyms
9. Comma errors
10. Apostrophe errors
Chapter 3 Thinking, Reading, and Analyzing Images Critically
3a What is critical thinking?
3b How can understanding rhetorical principles help critical thinking?
3c How can I break down the critical thinking process?
3d How do I summarize or comprehend?
3e How do I analyze readings or ideas?
3f How do I synthesize?
3g How do I evaluate?
3h How do I use inductive and deductive reasoning?
3i What are logical fallacies?
3j How can I view images with a critical eye?
3k How can images persuade?
3l How can I analyze words combined with images?
Chapter 4 Understanding College and Other Writing Situations
4a What is a writing situation?
4b What does "purpose" mean for writing?
4c What does "audience" mean for writing?
4d What is role in writing?
4e What is genre in writing?
4f What are context and special requirements in writing?
Chapter 5 Essential Processes for Writing
5a What are writing processes?
5b How do I think like a writer?
5c How do I begin planning?
5d What role do audience and purpose play?
5e How can I develop ideas about my topic?
5f How can a thesis statement help me plan?
5g How can outlining help me plan?
5h What works in writing a first draft?
5i How do I get over writer's block?
5j How does revision work?
5k How does editing work?
5l What strategies can I use to proofread?
5m A student's essay in three drafts
Chapter 6 Writing Paragraphs, Shaping Essays
6a How do I shape essays?
6b How do paragraphs work?
6c How can I write effective introductory paragraphs?
6d What are body paragraphs?
6e What are topic sentences?
6f How can I develop my body paragraphs?
6g How can I create coherence in paragraphs?
6h How can I arrange a paragraph?
6i How can rhetorical patterns help me write paragraphs?
6j What is a transitional paragraph?
6k What are effective concluding paragraphs?
Chapter 7 Designing Documents
7a What is document design?
7b What are basic principles of design?
7c How do I design with text?
7d How do I use headings?
7e How can I incorporate photographs?
7f How can I incorporate other visuals?
7g What is page layout?
Chapter 8 Creating a Writing Portfolio
8a What is a writing portfolio?
8b What writing do I include in a portfolio?
8c How do I write my self reflection?
8d How do I format a writing portfolio?
Chapter 9 Writing with Others
9a What is writing with others?
9b How can I collaborate with other writers?
9c How can I give useful feedback to others?
9d How can I benefit from others' help?
9e How can I participate effectively in online discussions?
Part 2 Frames for College Writing
Chapter 10 Personal Essays
10a What is a personal essay?
10b How do I plan and revise personal essays?
10c What is a frame for a personal essay?
10d What sentence and paragraph guides can help generate ideas?
10e A student's personal essay
10f How do I write a literacy narrative?
Chapter 11 Informative Essays
11a What are informative essays?
11b How do I plan and revise informative essays?
11c What is a frame for an informative essay?
11d What are sentence and paragraph guides for an informative essay?
11e A student's informative essay
Chapter 12 Process Essays
12a What is a process essay?
12b How do I plan and revise process essays?
12c What is a frame for a process essay?
12d What are sentence or paragraph guides for process essays?
12e A student process essay
Chapter 13 Essays Analyzing Cause or Effect
13a What is an essay analyzing cause of effect?
13b How do I plan and revise essay that analyze cause or effect?
13c What are frames for essays that analyze cause or effect?
13d What sentence and paragraph guides can help generate ideas?
13e A student essay analyzing cause
Chapter 14 Essays Analyzing a Text
14a What is textual analysis?
14b What role does critical thinking and reading play in textual analysis?
14c How do I generate ideas for a rhetorical or content analysis?
14d What is a frame for a textual analysis?
14e What are some sentence and paragraph guides for textual analysis?
14f A student's textual analysis
Chapter 15 Argument Essays
15a What is argument?
15b What role does critical thinking and reading play in arguments?
15c How do I plan and revise arguments?
15d What are frames for arguments?
15e What are some sentence and paragraph guides for arguments?
15f A student's argument essay
Chapter 16 Proposal or Solution Essays
16a What are you proposal or solution essays?
16b How do I plan and revise proposal or solution arguments?
16c What is a frame for a proposal or solution essay?
16d What are some sentence and paragraph guides for proposal/solution essays?
16e A student's solution essay
Chapter 17 Evaluation Essays
17a What are evaluation essays?
17b What roles does critical thinking and play in evaluation essays?
17c How do I plan and revise evaluation essays?
17d What is a frame for an evaluation essay?
17e What are some sentence and paragraph guides for evaluations?
17f A student's evaluation essay
Part 3 Source-based Writing
Chapter 18 Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing
18a How can I integrate sources into my writing?
18b How can I use quotations effectively?
18c How can I write good paraphrases?
18d How can I summarize?
18e Which verbs can help me weave source material into my sentences?
18f What is synthesizing sources?
18g What are possible relationships between sources?
18h What can I do when sources are about different subtopics?
18i What can I do when sources agree?
18j What can I do when sources partly disagree?
18k What can I do when sources disagree?
18l What can I do when one source is more specific than the other one?
Chapter 19 Avoiding Plagiarism
19a What is plagiarism?
19b How do I avoid plagiarism?
19c How do I avoid plagiarism when using Internet sources?
19d What don't I have to document?
19e How do I document ideas?
Chapter 20 Writing About Readings
20a What are typical assignments for writing about readings?
20b How do I write a summary essay?
20c How do I write a response essay?
20d What are analysis or interpretation essays?
20e How do I write essays that apply readings?
Part 4 Research and Documentation
Chapter 21 Starting a Research Project
21a What is research?
21b What is a source?
21c What is a research paper?
21d How do I plan a research project?
21e How do I choose a research topic?
21f What is a research question?
21g What is a research log?
21h How does the writing situation shape my research paper?
21i What are two main types of research papers?
21j What documentation style should I use?
21k What is a search strategy?
21l What is field research?
21m What is a working bibliography?
21n How might online software help me create bibliographies or organize sources?
21o What is an annotated bibliography?
21p How do I take content notes?
Chapter 22 Finding Published Sources
22a What kind of published sources are there?
22b How can libraries help me?
22c What are search engines and databases?
22d How do I use search engines and databases?
22e How do I use subject directories?
22f How do I find books?
22g How do I find periodicals?
22h How do I use reference works?
22i How can I find images?
22j How do I find government documents?
Chapter 23 Evaluating Sources
23a How did you find the source?
23b Is the publisher authoritative?
23c Is the author qualified to write about the topic?
23d Does the source have sufficient and accurate evidence?
23e Does the source pass other critical thinking tests?
23f How do strategies for evaluating sources work together?
Chapter 24 Drafting and Revising a Research Paper
24a How does the writing process apply to research?
24b How do I draft a thesis statement for a research paper?
24c How do I outline a research paper?
24d How do I draft a research paper?
24e What are frames for research papers?
24f A student's argumentative research paper
24g How do I revise a research paper?
24h How do I edit and format a research paper?
Chapter 25 MLA Documentation with Case Study
MLA In-Text Citation Directory
MLA Works Cited List Directory
25a What is MLA documentation style?
25b What is MLA in-text parenthetical documentation?
25c What are additional MLA guidelines for parenthetical citations?
25d What are MLA guidelines for a works cited list?
25e What are MLA guidelines for sources in a works cited list?
25f What are MLA format guidelines for research papers?
25g A student's MLA-style research paper
Chapter 26 APA Documentation Style and Case Study
APA In-Text Citations
26a What is APA documentation style?
26b What are APA in-text parenthetical citations?
26c What are APA guidelines for in-text citations?
26d What are APA guidelines for a references list?
26e What are APA guidelines for sources in a references list?
26f What are APA guidelines for writing an abstract?
26g What are APA guidelines for content notes?
26h What are APA format guidelines for research papers?
26i A student's APA-style research paper
Chapter 27 Chicago Manual (CM) and Council of Science Editors (CSE) Documentation
27a What is CM-style documentation?
27b What are CM guidelines for bibliographic notes?
27c What is CSE-style documentation?
27d What are CSE guidelines for sources in a list of references?
Part 5 Understanding Grammar and Writing Correct Sentences
Chapter 28 Parts of Speech and Sentence Structures
Parts of Speech
28a Why learn the parts of speech?
28b What is a noun?
28c What is a pronoun?
28d What is a verb?
28e What is a verbal?
28f What is an adjective?
28g What is an adverb?
28h What is a preposition?
28i What is a conjunction?
28j What is an interjection?
Sentence Structures
28k How is a sentence defined?
28l What are subject and predicate in a sentence?
28m What are direct and indirect objects?
28n What are complements, modifiers, and appositives?
28o What is a phrase?
28p What is a clause?
28q What are the four sentence types?
Chapter 29 Verbs
29a What do verbs do?
29b What are the forms of main verbs?
29c What is the —s, or —es, form of a verb?
29d What is the difference between regular and irregular verbs?
29e What are auxiliary verbs?
29f What are intransitive and transitive verbs?
29g What is a verb tense?
29h How do I use the simple present tense?
29i How do I form and use the perfect tense?
29j How do I form and use progressive forms?
29k How do I use tense sequences accurately?
29l What is "mood" in verbs?
29m What are subjunctive forms?
29n What is "voice" in verbs?
29o How do I write in the active, not passive, voice?
29p What are proper uses of the passive voice?
Chapter 30 Pronouns: Case and Reference
Pronoun Case
30a What does "case" mean?
30b What are personal pronouns?
30c How do pronouns work in case?
30d Which case is correct when and connects pronouns?
30e How do I match cases with appositives?
30f How does case work after linking verbs?
30g When should I use who, whoever, whom, and whomever?
30h What pronoun case comes after than or as?
30i How do pronouns work before infinitives?
30j How do pronouns work with —ing words?
30k What case should I use for —self pronouns?
Pronoun Reference
30l What is pronoun reference?
30m What makes pronoun reference clear?
30n How can I avoid unclear pronoun reference?
30o How do pronouns work with it, that, this, and which?
30p How do I use they and it precisely?
30q How do I use it to suit the situation?
30r When should I use you for direct address?
30s When should I use that, which, and who?
Chapter 31 Agreement
31a What is agreement?
31b What is subject-verb agreement?
31c Why is a final —s or —es in a subject or verb so important?
31d Can I ignore words between a subject and its verb?
31e How do verbs work when subjects are connected by and?
31f How do verbs work with each and every?
31g How do verbs work with subjects are connected by or?
31h How do verbs work with inverted work order?
31i How do verbs work with indefinite pronouns?
31j How do verbs work with collective nouns?
31k Does a linking verb agree with the subject complement?
31l What verbs agree with who, which, and that?
31m How do verbs work with amounts, fields of study, and other special nouns?
31n How do verbs work with titles, company names, and words as themselves?
31o What is pronoun-antecedent agreement?
31p How do pronouns work when and connects antecedents?
31q How do pronouns work when or connects antecedents?
31r How do pronouns work when antecedents are indefinite pronouns?
31s How do I use nonsexist pronouns?
31t How do pronouns work when antecedents are collective nouns?
Chapter 32 Adjectives and Adverbs
32a What are the differences between adjectives and adverbs?
32b When should I adverbs–not adjectives–as modifiers?
32c What is wrong with double negatives?
32d Do adjectives adverbs come after linking verbs?
32e What are comparative and superlative forms?
32f Why avoid a long string of nouns as modifiers?
Chapter 33 Sentence Fragments
33a What is a sentence fragment?
33b How can I recognize a sentence fragment?
33c How can I correct a fragment that starts with a subordinating word?
33d How can I correct a fragment that lacks a verb?
33e How can I correct a fragment that lacks a subject?
33f How can I correct a fragment that's a part of a compound predicate?
33g How can I correct a list that is a fragment?
33h How can I recognize intentional fragments?
Chapter 34 Comma Splices and Run-On Sentences
34a What are comma splices and run-on sentences?
34b How can I recognize comma splices and run-on sentences?
34c How can I correct comma splices and run-on sentences?
34d How can I correctly use a conjunctive adverb or other transitional expression between independent clauses?
Chapter 35 Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
35a What is misplaced modifiers?
35b How can I avoid split infinitives?
35c How can I avoid other splits in my sentences?
35d How can I avoid dangling modifiers?
35e How can I proofread successfully for misplaced and dangling modifiers?
Chapter 36 Shifting and Mixed Sentences
36a What is a shifting sentence?
36b How can I avoid shift in person and number?
36c How can I avoid shifts in subject and voice?
36d How can I avoid shifts in tense and mood?
36e How can I avoid shifts between indirect and direct discourse?
36f What is a mixed sentence?
36g How can I correct a mixed sentence due to faulty predication?
36h What are correct elliptical constructions?
36i What are correct comparisons?
36j How can I proofread successfully for little words I forget to use?
Part 6 Writing Effectively, Writing With Style
Chapter 37 Style and Tone in Writing
37a What are style and tone in writing?
37b What is Standard Edited English?
37c How do I write with style?
37d What defines style and tone in writing?
37e What is tone in writing?
37f How can using exact diction enhance my writing?
37g How can using specific words enhance my writing?
37h What is figurative language?
37i What is gender-neutral language?
37j What other types of language do I want to avoid?
Chapter 38 Sentence Variety and Style
38a How do sentences affect styles?
38b What are variety and emphasis in writing?
38c How do different sentence lengths create variety and emphasis?
38d What are coordination and subordination?
38e What is coordination of sentences?
38f What is the structure of a coordinate sentence?
38g What meaning does each coordinating conjunction convey?
38h How can I use coordination effectively?
38i What is subordination in sentences?
38j What is the structure of a subordinate sentence?
38k What meaning does each subordinating conjunction convey?
38l How can I use subordination effectively?
38m How can I effectively use coordination and subordination together?
38n How do occasional questions, commands, or exclamations create variety and emphasis?
38o What are cumulative and periodic sentences?
38p How can modifiers create variety and emphasis?
38q How does repetition affect style?
38r How else can I create variety and emphasis?
Chapter 39 Parallelism
39a What is parallelism?
39b How do words, phrases, and clauses work in parallel form?
39c How does parallelism deliver impact?
39d How can I avoid faulty parallelism?
39e How does parallelism work in outlines and lists?
Chapter 40 Conciseness
40a What is conciseness?
40b What common expressions are not concise?
40c What sentence structures usually work against conciseness?
40d How else can I revise for conciseness?
40e How do verbs affect conciseness?
Part 7 Punctuation and Mechanics
Chapter 41 Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points
41a When does a period end a sentence?
41b How do I use periods with abbreviations?
Question Marks
41c When do I use a question mark?
41d When can I use a question mark in parentheses?
Exclamation Points
41e When do I use an exclamation point?
41f What is considered overuse of exclamation points?
Chapter 42 Commas
42a What is the role of the comma?
42b How do commas work with coordinating conjunctions?
42c How do commas work with introductory clauses, phrases, and words?
42d How do commas work with items in a series?
42e How do commas work with coordinate adjectives?
42f How do commas work with nonrestrictive elements?
42g how do commas set off parenthetical expressions, contrasts, words of direct address, and tag sentences?
42h How do commas work with quoted words?
42i How do commas work in dates, names, addresses, correspondence, and numbers?
42j How do commas clarify meaning?
42k How can I avoid misusing commas?
42l How can I avoid comma errors?
Chapter 43 Semicolons
43a What are the uses of a semicolon?
43b When can I use a semicolon, instead of a period, between independent clauses?
43c When can I use a semicolon between independent clauses?
43d How do semicolons work with coordinating conjunctions?
43e When should I use semicolons between items in a series?
43f How do I avoid misusing the semicolon?
Chapter 44 Colons
44a What are the uses of a colon?
44b When can a colon introduce a list, an appositive, or a quotation?
44c When can I use a colon between two independent clauses?
44d What standard formats require a colon?
44e When is a colon wrong?
44f How do I use an apostrophe with contractions?
Chapter 45 Apostrophes
45a What is the role of the apostrophe?
45b How do I use an apostrophe to show a possessive noun?
45c How do I use an apostrophe with possessive pronouns?
45d How do I use an apostrophe with contractions?
45e How do I use an apostrophe with possessive indefinite pronouns?
45f How do I form the plural of miscellaneous elements?
45g When is an apostrophe wrong?
Chapter 46 Quotation Marks
46a What is the role of quotation marks?
46b How do I use quotation marks with short direct quotations?
46c Are quotation marks used with long quotations?
46d How do I use quotation marks for quotations within quotations?
46e How do I use quotation marks for quotations of poetry and dialogue?
46f How do I use quotation marks with titles of short works?
46g How do I use quotation marks for words used as words?
46h How do I use quotation marks with other punctuation?
46i When are quotation marks wrong?
Chapter 47 Other Punctuation Marks
47a When can I use a dash in my writing?
47b When can I use parentheses in my writing?
47c When do I need to use brackets in my writing?
47d How do I use ellipsis points in my writing?
47e When can I use a slash in my writing?
47f When do I need a hyphen in my writing?
47g When do I use a hyphen at the end of a line?
47h How do I use a hyphen with prefixes and suffixes?
47i How do I use hyphens with compound words?
Chapter 48 Capitals, Italics, Abbreviations, and Numbers
48a When do I capitalize a "first" word?
48b When do I use capitals with listen items?
48c When do I use capitals with sentences in parentheses?
48d When do I use capitals with quotations?
48e When do I capitalize nouns and adjectives?
48f What are italics?
48g How do I choose between using italics and quotation marks?
48h can I use italics for special emphasis?
48i What are standard practices for using abbreviations?
48j How do I use abbreviations with months, time, eras, and symbols?
48k How do I use abbreviations for other elements?
48l When can I use etc.?
48m When do I use spelled-out numbers?
48n What are standard practices for writing numbers?
Chapter 49 Spelling
49a What makes a good speller?
49b How can I proofread for errors in spelling and hyphen use?
49c How are plurals spelled?
49d How are suffixes spelled?
49e What is the ie, ei rule?
49f How are homonyms and other frequently confused words spelled?
49g What are compound words?
Part 8 Writing When English Is Not Your First Language
Chapter 50 Multilingual Students Writing in US Colleges and Universities
50a What do U.S. writing instructors expect in student writing?
50b What do U.S. instructors expect for analysis of readings?
50c What kind of dictionary can help me the most?
50d How do I work with peer response groups, if required?
50e How can I improve my writing of American English?
50f How can I keep track of my most common errors?
50g How can I improve my proofreading skills?
50h What English errors come from other languages?
Chapter 51 Handling Sentence-Level Issues in English
51a How can I improve the grammar and vocabulary in my writing?
51b How can I improve my sentence structure?
51c How can I improve my word choice (vocabulary)?
51d How can I find and correct errors in my own writing?
51e How can I correct verb form (tense) errors in my writing?
51f How can I correct my errors in subject-verb agreement?
51g How can I correct my singular/plural errors?
51h How can I correct my preposition errors?
51i What other kinds of errors might I make?
51j How can I keep track of my most common errors?
51k How can I improve my proofreading skills?
Chapter 52 Singulars and Plurals
52a What are count and noncount nouns?
52b How do I use determiners with singular and plural nouns?
52c How do I use one of, nouns as adjectives, and states in names or titles? 52d How do I use nouns with irregular plurals?
Chapter 53 Articles
53a How do I use a, an, or the with singular count nouns?
53b How do I use articles with plural nouns and with noncount nouns?
53c How do I use the with proper nouns and with gerunds?
Chapter 54 Word Order
54a How do I understand standard and inverted word order sentences?
54b How can I understand the placement of adjectives?
54c How can I understand the placement of adverbs?
Chapter 55 Prepositions
55a How can I recognize prepositions?
55b How do I use prepositions with expressions of time and place?
55c How do I use prepositions in phrasal verbs?
55d How do I use prepositions with past participles?
55e How do I use prepositions in expressions?
Chapter 56 Gerunds and Infinitives
56a How can I use gerunds and infinitives as subjects?
56b When do I use a gerund, not an infinitive, as an object?
56c When do I use an infinitive, not a gerund, as an object?
56d How does meaning change when certain verbs are followed by a gerund or an infinitive?
56e Why is the meaning unchanged whether a gerund or an infinitive follows sense verbs?
56f How do I choose between —ing and —ed forms for adjectives?
Chapter 57 Modal Auxiliary Verbs
57a How do I convey ability, necessity, advisability, possibility, and probability with modals?
57b How do I convey preferences, plans, and past habits with modals?
57c How can I recognize modals in the passive voice?
Part 9 Specific Writing Situations
Chapter 58 An Overview of Writing Across the Curriculum
58a What is writing across the curriculum?
58b What do I need to know about audience and purpose across the curriculum?
Chapter 59 Writing About the Humanities
59a What are the humanities?
59b What types of papers do I write in the humanities?
59c Which documentation style do I use in writing about the humanities?
59d How do I write about literature?
59e How do I write different types of papers about literature?
59f What special rules apply to writing about literature?
59g How do I use documentation in writing about literature?
58h A student's essay about literature
Chapter 60 Writing in the Social and Natural Sciences
60a What are the social sciences?
60b What are different types of papers in the social sciences?
60c What documentation style do I use in the social sciences?
60d What are the natural sciences?
60e How do I write different types of papers in the natural sciences?
60f Which documentation style do I use in the natural sciences?
Chapter 61 Writing Under Pressure
61a When will I need to write under pressure?
61b When do I prepare for essay exams?
Chapter 62 Making Presentations
62a What are presentations?
62b How does my situation focus my presentation?
62c How do I adapt my message to my audience?
62d How do I organize my presentation?
62e How do I use multimedia in presentations?
62f What presentation styles can I use?
62g How do I make a collaborative presentation?
Chapter 63 Writing for Digital Environments
63a What is writing for digital environments?
63b How do I write in a blog?
63c How do I write in a wiki?
63d How do I use photographs?
63e How do I create video and sound recordings?
63f How do I produce web sites?
63g What is netiquette?
63h What do I need to know about social networking?
Chapter 64 Writing for Work
64a Who writes in the workplace and why?
64b What are important features of work-related correspondence?
64c How do I write work-related e-mail?
64d How do I format and write memos?
64e How do I format business letters?
64f How do I write business reports?
64g How do I write business proposals?
64h How do I write a résumé?
64i How do I write a job application letter?
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My oldest, Jacob, is a bit of a wildlife nut. He loves learning about animals, and recently purchased a wildlife camera to see what he could catch on it. Since he loves the outdoors and taking pictures, this is the best of both worlds for him!
A few days ago, he lost one of his Havana rabbits (natural causes) and decided that this would be a perfect time to "bait" his wildlife camera to see what would come around.
Very interesting results!!
I'm loving that J is taking such an interest in world around him! And I won't be going out into the woods at the farm for a long, long, LONG time!!


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Sometimes my family gets more done in a day than we do in an entire week. This Saturday was one of those days. The busy time started on Friday night when we had to get organized for the Twins Club Halloween party which I was in charge of (translation - husband taking care of because he is way more organized and together than I am) and my friends were also hosting a private party down at Howl at the Moon. I skipped down to Howl at the Moon and made it for about the last 15 minutes of the free drinks (I managed to down two beers in that amount of time) and Kevin and Janet (the hosts) gave out free bottles of wine. They're big wine drinkers and often host extremely BAD ASS parties that feature wine they've just had shipped in from Napa......so a gift of wine from them is pretty cool. I'm not sure if this bottle is going to be good (allegedly it's surprisingly good despite the bottle art) but I think I LOVE the bottle art. I may never get rid of this bottle.
On Saturday though.......the long day began. HUGE THANK YOUS AND HUGS and what not to my husband because, thanks to him, the Halloween party was a huge success. We had a cupcake decorating station and crafts and tons of games plus some extremely cool gift bags all filled with goodies my hubby picked up. We had a bit of a heart attack when WAY more people showed up for the party than we expected, but that's a good thing, right? And everyone seemed to have a good time. It was a little nerve wracking at time - have you ever been in a room full of screaming, laughing and playing multiples all under the age of 6? In fact mostly under the age of 3?
Here is Louis working on his craft - he made one of these two years ago with Daddy's help - he was DETERMINED this year to do it "On my own".
You'd think that a HUGE Halloween party would be enough activity for one family but NOT US BABY! After naps and diapers we headed out to the Pumpkin Patch - but since blogger is giving me trouble I'll have to post up those pics in a second post.
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The materials she uses include concrete, sometimes in combination with other natural material. These are made into benches, planters, counter tops, tabletops, and other applications.


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Thymoquinone Fights Against Seasonal Allergies
By Michael A. Smith, MDBlack cumin seed oil contains a known immune modulator that could potentially help millions of people dry up their sinuses.
Now, we're not talking about the spice cumin — that's a totally different plant species from black cumin. This is something else entirely.
So, although I would always advise to cook liberally with cumin, it probably won't help your runny, itchy nose. Sorry.
But black cumin, however, may very well help because it provides thymoquinone — an immune modulator.
Let's explore how it works.
Allergies and Your Immune SystemYour immune system requires specific proteins, also called cytokines or interleukins, to communicate between white blood cells. This elaborate communication network allows for coordinated attacks against bacteria, viruses and sometimes innocent grasses, trees and even foods.
The immune system doesn't discriminate against anything that it perceives as potentially harmful — including living things found in nature. The seemingly innocent allergens from nature enter your body through the air and elicit an immune attack, all coordinated by those immune system proteins.
With allergens in your body, the proteins activate B-cells to produce an antibody called IgE. This in turn can increase the production of a number of different immune cells, including histamine releasing mast cells. The end result is a surge of histamine that causes the allergy symptoms you have grown to hate.
Thymoquinone Helps Control Several Immune ProteinsThymoquinone, found in black cumin seed oil, has actually been shown to help control or modulate the production and release of the immune proteins explained above.1,2
So what does this mean for you? Well, it could mean less histamine release, fewer allergy symptoms, and less frustration with your immune system overall.
A quick disclaimer though - the studies showing thymoquinone's specific effect on immune proteins were conducted in conjunction with common allergy medications. The studies in the next section below, however, were conducted using thymoquinone exclusively.
Thymoquinone Improves Allergy SymptomsIn four studies, 152 patients with allergic rhinitis and asthma were treated with black cumin seed oil standardized to thymoquinone.3
The researchers studied the subjective severity of symptoms and some objective allergy measurements, including IgE antibody levels, eosinophil count, endogenous cortisol and ACTH. And because it's a healthy oil, they also checked total cholesterol, LDL, HDL and triglycerides.
The following results were published:
- The score of subjective allergy symptoms improved in all four studies.
- There was a decrease in IgE levels and eosinophil count.
- Plasma triglycerides decreased and HDL cholesterol increased.
- Cortisol levels and ACTH release remained unchanged.
Pretty interesting, isn't it?
- J Ethnopharmacol. 2011 Sep 2;137(2):1028-34.
- Egypt J Immunol. 2005;12(1):95-102.
- Phytother Res. 2003 Dec;17(10):1209-14.


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The Good Ol' Boys Club of 1968 is dead. Move on.
On his blog, Michael Krepon revisits the Indo-U.S. nuclear agreement today and asks whether it was a worthwhile project, when considered against the backdrop of existing nonproliferation norms and the idea of "Indian exceptionalism" that led to the eventual implementation of the nuclear deal. This comes on the heels of additional criteria laid out by the Nuclear Suppliers' Group (NSG) curbing Enrichment and Reprocessing (ENR) technology transfers to non-NPT signatories. It appears that the nonproliferation ayatollahs in DC have awoken from a long slumber and have once again set their sights on India and the Indo-U.S. nuclear agreement.
But don't take my word for it. Consider some of the arguments put forth by Dr. Krepon:
One, even with the positive outcome of the 2010 NPT Review Conference, nonproliferation norms took a hit from the U.S.-India civil nuclear deal and, at best, will take time to reinforce. The deal has added to the IAEA's woes and has made the NSG a weaker institution.
Two, negative nuclear trend lines within Pakistan have grown steeper and will be harder to reverse.
All good DC nonprolif ayatollahs like to make the case that Pakistan's nuclear mess is inexorably linked to India's status as a nuclear power. But Pakistan has been operating outside the nonproliferation system for decades to develop nuclear weapons and build up its nuclear arsenal and delivery systems. A gentleman by the name of AQ Khan can provide full and complete information about how Pakistan managed to develop a nuclear program in the first place.
And contrary to popular myth, Pakistan sought to build a nuclear weapons program well before India conducted a nuclear test in 1974. Pakistan was up to no-good decades before the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal; the only difference post the nuclear deal is that it is far more brazen in admitting its violation of nonproliferation norms. The rhetoric has changed, but actions haven't.
Three, the arc of U.S.-Indian relations has improved, but with far less loft than the Bush administration's deal makers conceived. Trade and investment will grow, as will defense sales and cooperation in some areas. This would have been the case whether or not the Bush administration had decided to pursue the civil nuclear deal. Indeed, these advances were delayed because it took five years of high-level attention to close this deal.
That Indo-U.S. trade would have grown with or without the nuclear deal is perhaps a fair point. The question here is not about if Indo-U.S. trade will grow, but by what magnitude. Since 2000, Indo-U.S. trade has grown at an average of 13% year over year, and while Indo-U.S. trade dipped in 2009, it can largely be attributed to the global economic downturn.
Despite this, Indo-U.S. trade grew by 30% in 2010 — faster than at any time during the decade. Bilateral trade will likely grow further were the U.S. to participate in India's nuclear energy, valued at $150 billion. Let's also not forget the the civil nuclear deal was passed in Congress in 2008. Three years is an insufficient period of time to draw such broad conclusions on the utility of the nuclear deal — especially given the financial crisis.
Four, the notion of India joining the "nonproliferation mainstream," as advocates of the deal predicted, has been a mirage. Instead, New Delhi has closed ranks with NAM states balking at stronger nonproliferation norms. India remains in limbo on the CTBT, seemingly far from ready to sign or to resume underground tests. Fissile material production for nuclear weapons continues; India, like Pakistan, may have doubled its inventory of nuclear weapons over the past decade.
Again, this is disingenuous. It was Brazil and Egypt via the NAM raised (valid, in my opinion) concerns about the nature of Additional Protocols articulated by the NSG; India for its part has always opposed the NPT in its current structure. Its position on the discriminatory nature of the NPT has not changed, pre- or post-nuclear deal. Yes, India hasn't signed the CTBT, but if it is truly as spectacular as some would like us to believe it is, then why hasn't the U.S. ratified the CTBT yet?
Further, comparing India and Pakistan on nuclear weapons production is absurd. Yes, India has increased its inventory of nuclear weapons, because serious production only commenced after Pokhran-II in 1998. Even this was severely curtailed because India's CIRUS reactor was shut down for repairs in 1997 and was only reopened in 2003. Contrast this against Pakistan, which went from having about 60 nuclear weapons in 2007 to an estimated 110 in 2011. Still think India and Pakistan's nuclear weapons programs are comparable? I guess not; but then the ability to distinguish between problem and solution has never been a hallmark of nonproliferation ayatollahs.
Five, New Delhi continues to titrate improved strategic cooperation with the United States, especially given domestic political sensitivities about U.S. infringements on Indian sovereignty. New Delhi also continues to improve ties with Beijing. It is folly to presume that Washington can leverage New Delhi's dealings with Beijing. The civil nuclear deal was a poor choice to help India become a stronger counterweight to China.
Why, then, did the Bush administration make this deal the centerpiece of bilateral relations during its second term? Why tackle the toughest nut first, incurring unnecessary and perhaps long-lasting damage to nonproliferation norms? It's obvious why New Delhi embraced the Bush administration's gift horse of a civil nuclear deal. Those in India who argued that it was a Trojan horse have been proven wrong on every count. So far, U.S. backers of the deal have also been proven wrong on every count. [Arms Control Wonk]
First, India, left to its own, will always pursue an independent foreign policy; this was true in the decades past as it is true now. Next, with the U.S.'s relative decline, it is not in a position to dictate to other countries whom they should or shouldn't befriend, particularly when those countries are aspirant future powers. If New Delhi continues to improve ties with China, so does the U.S.; it is the reality of the world we live in.
Now, India has dithered in the recent past on ties with the U.S., and those of us hoping for better bilateral relations have called on New Delhi to do its share of heavy-lifting too. But let's also be clear that the reason why India and the U.S. ought to forge better ties with each other is because they share the same fundamental ideals about the global order, and not because one can be used as leverage against a third power.
In the end, DC's nonproliferation ayatollahs are stuck in a time and place far removed from the present. The nonproliferation order requires a major overhaul if it is to be relevant in the world today. What does it say about the NPT's value and enforceability in the world today, when a sitting NWS member scoffed at established rules and provided nuclear technology to anyone willing to pay, without any repercussions?
The Good Ol' Boys Club of 1968 is dead. If Nuclear Weapons States were really concerned about nonproliferation, they would bring India in as a member nuclear weapons state. This requires structural reform, and unless the regime is reformed to reflect the realities of the 21st century, it will continue to grow less relevant with each passing day, as will its cheerleaders.


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Kellan Lutz has revealed he had to change Tarzan's famous cry for his new movie as the original call is trademarked.
The Twilight hunk plays the king of the jungle in a new motion capture animation of the film. But the 29-year-old could not re-enact the primal cry made famous in original Tarzan movies starring Johnny Weissmuller as the rights are owned by the estate of Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Kellan said: "Everyone knows the Tarzan cry, but what I didn't know was that we weren't going to be doing it the same because it's trademarked. So we had to change it a little bit.
"So for about a month and a half of shooting we didn't have the specific cry nailed down. And then on one of the last days they finally perfected the one that they wanted and they were like, 'here this is what it is, listen to it.' And then I only did it one time that I did it. And I don't remember it. It's very similar, but we couldn't do it just the same."
The Hollywood heartthrob also admitted he ended up aching after learning to walk and run on all-fours like an ape.
Kellan admitted: "I didn't realise how difficult it was gonna be. I went to the zoo and studied the movements of apes and chimpanzees, studied the vocal calls they have, their language.
"Every animal walks in a distinct different way. Humans we lead by our chin or our stomach or our chest, we pull out from the heels, push off with our toes.
And Tarzan is such a flexible, athletic... he's a bit of a ballerina in that sense because he's so graceful. So I had to change my walking movement to more like boxer stance, where you're always on your toes ready to pounce, ready for action.
"I loved it but I've never been more sore, especially running on all fours I'm not super flexible, I should have done more yoga growing up!"
Tarzan is released in cinemas on Friday May 2.


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An interesting article from [url=http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/10/we-are-99?fsrc=nlw|newe|10-14-2011|new_on_the_economist]The Economist[/url]
Straining for the populist mandate
Oct 14th 2011, 13:21 by W.W. | IOWA CITY
A SERIES of tweets yesterday from Chris Hayes, presenter of MSNBC's "Up With Chris Hayes", about the "We are the 99%" rhetoric associated with the Occupy Wall Street movement led me to a perhaps obvious thought I think is nonetheless worth pursuing toward some non-obvious conclusions.
Mr Hayes says, "I think the 99% message is brilliant, true and gets at something profound and widely shared by folks who aren't liberals." In response to this, and an earlier message from Mr Hayes defending polarisation, David Roberts of Grist tweeted: "But polarizing who against who? That's the contest right now. Is it right v. left or 99% v. 1%. Framing battle in realtime..." And Mr Hayes replied: "exactly. I'm saying that very powerful interests will brand this as 'left' rather than 99%. We should be clear eyed about that."
But isn't it true that the Occupy Wall Street movement and the "We are the 99%" message are creations of the left and embraced predominantly by the left? When Mr Hayes says that the 99% message is brilliant and true, what does he have in mind? I suppose it is that our political economy is rigged, especially with regard to financial economy, to benefit a relatively small number of powerful people at the top of the income distribution. I think this belief is indeed "widely shared by folks who aren't liberals". For example, I believe it, and I'm not a liberal in the sense Mr Hayes intends. Certainly, conservatives affiliated with the tea-party movement have vehemently attacked the bank bail-outs during the financial crisis, and the belief that the bail-outs were necessary to contain the financial crisis has become something of an albatross for Republican office-seekers. Still, perusing the "We are the 99%" Tumblr, it's hard not to conclude that the participants are not future Mitt Romney supporters. Which raises the obvious question: If "we" really are the 99%, why have we failed to use our overwhelming democratic heft to set in place reforms that would unrig the system and put the 1% in their place? The obvious answer there is a great deal of ideological disagreement within the lower 99% of the income distribution, and even if a large majority agrees that Wall Street is ripping off the nation, there is no consensus about what should be done about it.
When Mr Hayes says that "very powerful interests will brand this as 'left' rather than 99%", he is right, if by "very powerful interests" he means "all the Americans who recognise that the 99%-er message is coming almost entirely from the left". This is certainly a large and powerful group, commonly knows as "Republicans". Leaders of the tea-party movement early on went out of their way to insist that theirs is an ideologically ecumenical movement, but I think we all knew this was nonsense. Similarly, there is no real framing battle over the Occupy Wall Street/99% movement. It is a movement of the left, even if antagonism toward Wall Street is a bipartisan passion.
Why then do smart progressives like Mr Hayes want to insist that the "We are the 99%" message is a non-partisan one? Well, a populist mandate is nice to have. Progressives have seen the electoral consequences of the tea-party movement's successful occupation of the populist low-ground, and they'd like to occupy it for a little while, too, perhaps to similar electoral effect. But there's more to it than that. The 99% message is an economic class-war message, even if it puts all but 1% of us on the righteous side of the class divide. Economic class-war messages are of the left just as surely as American-authenticity culture-war messages are of the right. Moreover, the "we are the 99%" rhetoric nicely reinforces what I like to call the "progressive master narrative", according to which runaway economic inequality enables an enormously wealthy elite to gut our democratic institutions and bend them to their mean designs, overriding the authentic will of the many. If it happens that a majority of Americans oppose the particular policies that progressives favour, this is just evidence that our democracy has been largely captured by the rich already. If conservative populism expresses any authentic, native ideological instincts, it has been co-opted by plutocrat running dogs like Americans for Prosperity, the likes of whom also blind the public to the really crucial truth: that there really is a class warthat it really is us, the 99%, against the crooked, opulent remainder. That's the objective reality of the situation. If we fail to see it, we're probably being used. Those who would resist the "99% v 1%" framing in favour of the "left v right" framing are probably unwitting tools acting against their own objective interests. That the "left v right" framing seems so obvious only goes to show just how low we've been brought. So, Obama 2012!
We may be the 99% against the 1% but the 99% are split into 49.5% to the left and 49.5% to the right. At the moment the right can't see enough common cause with the left to vote out the 1%. The fear of the left is still too strong. A few more disasters and a few politicians of the left who may actually stand up to the 1% and say something sensible and it may happen though.
Then we have the problem of what the 1% will do to maintain their position. Another war against a foreign devil would be favourite. They're building up the bogey man of Iran quite well at the moment. China would be the obvious and most natural enemy/competitor and easiest to portray as the baddy but they're too strong militarily. Iran is not big enough to be a really significant opponent so they will probably be the chosen one.
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We consider three-person envy games with a proposer, a responder, and a dummy player. In this class of games, the proposer, rather than allocating a constant pie, chooses the pie size which the responder can then accept or reject while the dummy player can only refuse his own share. While the agreement payoffs for the responder and the dummy are exogenously given, the proposer acts as the residual claimant who - in case of responder acceptance - receives whatever is left after the two exogenously given agreement payoffs have been deducted from the pie. Consistent with earlier findings from three-person generosity games, we find inequality aversion to be strongly context-dependent and affected by the (in)equality of exogenously given agreement payoffs. Motivated by these findings, we present a stylized model on context-dependent inequality aversion that accounts for the observed effects.
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Running a successful event usually involves growing a powerful idea and implementing it in a bulletproof concept. The thing is that inspiration is the truffle of our industry, very tough to find. Here are some brilliant event concepts guaranteed to inspire you.
If you are a regular here at EMBlog, you are accustomed to these roundups and I am sure you crave for them. If you are a new reader, allow me to give you a bit of background about what I am trying to achieve with this article.
My mission is to inspire your concept design. In order to achieve it, I search in the most absurd locations of the Interwebs to give you a selection of new and disruptive event ideas.
The search usually takes a week. It encompasses running weird Google search strings, subscribing to awful looking (but definitely quirky) newsletters and reading hundreds of blog posts and magazine articles.
Despite the heavy research load necessary to write such an article, I am super happy when I finally click on "Publish". In fact, you always reward my research by sharing the post with your colleagues or friends. That works for me.
How to Use This Article
I want you to think of this post as an electric stimulus to that side of the brain that involves creativity, innovation and emotion.
Event lovers are by definition obsessed with details. While such obsession is fundamental to deliver a spotless event, it can sometimes impact on creativity.
Therefore my mission is to make your event a little bit less perfect and a bit more innovative. After all great concepts carry a great deal of emotional involvement. I want you to embrace innovation to the full, surprising your guests. I bet a glass of wine they will forgive you for a couple of imperfect details.
The Ideas
Before delving into the selected events, I decided to highlight the core themes powering these brilliant case studies. This will help you to isolate the concept from the implementation so you fully grasp elements to apply to your event.
The main themes are:
– Collaboration
– Proper Marketing
– Secrecy
– Self Expression
– Immersive Experience
– Concept Fusion
– Forking
– Bottom Up Pricing
– Remote Audience Involvement
– Community Customisation
At least this the way I like to call them. In the following section I will present one or more case studies that will better explain the idea at the core.
The result, hopefully, will be an innovation injection to our industry
Collaboration: Brooklyn Skillshare, OuiShare Fest
Communities getting together to share skills and expertise are not a new concept to this blog. Brooklyn Skillshare is taking this powerful concept to the next level.
The event is a mix between block parties and EdCamps. It brings together an entire neighbourhood to encourage skill and expertise sharing.
The effort is lead and organized by the community and it aims to deconstruct the idea of education as a commodity. Everyone is invited to contribute with a class, on the most disparate subjects.
Classes include: Japanese Bookbinding, Make Your Own Butter and Ricotta, Knitting 101: fingerless gloves in the round, Japanese Shibori dying techniques, How to order wine in a restaurant and so forth.
Where: Brooklyn, NY, USA
Spotted on: Using Smart Google Queries (you'll need to torture me to know which strings)
Website: Brooklyn Skillshare
Another interesting example is OuiShare Fest that uses the '40 year old concept of collaborative design' to co-create a unique experience.
The organizing committee used a collective action toolkit and tools like Trello to coordinate with volunteer organizers. The approach was particularly interesting insofar as each volunteer is in charge of developing a particular section of the event.
Where: Paris, France
Spotted on: Thanks to Bernie Mitchell on Twitter
Website: OuiShare Fest
Proper Marketing: Hero Conf
This is an example of a blog running an annual conference. No news there.
I happen to be a subscriber PPC Hero and they made a few articles about the conference. It really strucks me as an example of how you should market an event in a social world.
They took all the best practices and some of the coolest trends in 2013 and applied them with courage.
Take for example this post where they announce that sponsor opportunities will be allocated via bidding. It is a ridiculously cool idea. Some sponsorship packages started at $0.99 and sold for respectable amounts considering the size of the conference.
They also allow attendees to select the program of the conference by voting for their favourite topic.
This is what I call event marketing of the future, a perfect blend of audience involvement and crowdsourced sponsorship. Top!
Where: Austin, TX, USA
Spotted on: I subscribed to the blog – I was lucky
Website: Hero Conf
Secrecy: Secret Cinema, The Secret Garden Party
I feel somewhat attracted when I do not understand what an event is about.
It is the case of Secret Cinema. Attendees sign up for a view slot without knowing the location or the film they will actually experience.
Can you feel the curious child in you getting super excited?
Where: London, UK
Spotted on: I got to know about it in London
Website: Secret Cinema
Same goes for The Secret Garden Party. In this case the venue is known but after spending a good hour on the site, it is still tough for me to say what it is about. Some would call it lack of clarity, yet I can easily see why people attend. The theme for 2013 is Superstition. In the organizers' words this is what it is expected from attendees:
"This year the Secret Garden will be asking all Gardeners to explore their affinity to the supernatural, the inexplicable and the irrational… to indulge the tussle between the left brain's sober analysis and the right's need to conjure its own reality. "
In both cases the attendee reaction can be either very positive or very negative. Both events really push the boundaries of event participation, using secrecy as the main tool to stimulate involvement.
Where: Cambridgeshire, UK
Spotted on: Stumbled across them on Twitter
Website: The Secret Garden Party
Self Expression: Nowhere
Nowhere is the natural prosecution of Burning Man. It also combines a festival and art show element. The objective here is to set the attendee free by creating a platform where participants escape society's norms.
There is also a strong participation element, making every attendee a volunteer.
Nowhere happens in the Spanish desert and features inspiring principles:
– Radical self-expression: The freedom to be yourself
– Radical self-reliance: Being responsible for yourself, in a harsh desert environment
– No commerce: Forget about money – there's nothing to buy
– Leave no trace: Dust to dust – leave only footprints
– Participation: Get involved – Nowhere is what we make it!
This event is once again a divider. I can see some of you thinking that there is no actual learning in it. Well, you should read how attendees become strenuous advocates of Nowhere, depicting it as a once in a lifetime experience.
Allowing our guests to express themselves freely may positively impact on the perception of our event. As event professionals we cannot ignore that.
Where: Spanish desert.
Spotted on: Quora
Website: Nowhere
Immersive Experience: Geeks on a Plane
I always look to the startup, tech and geek community as a source of innovation for our industry. The most revolutionary event concepts of the last decade were born in these environments.
Geeks on a Plane is an invite only event where participants tour a country with all means of transportation. The mission is to find business opportunities, meet new contacts or simply learn more about a specific market.
Startuppers and geeks do not work because they have to, they have the nerve and motivation to make their business an incumbent part of their life. The organizers fully grasped these values offering an immersive, 360 degree experience.
The travelling, the meetings, the networking are extremely demanding. Organizers are not scared to ask full commitment and attendees seem to love it.
Where: Around the World.
Spotted on: Quora
Website: Geeks on a Plane
Concept Fusion: Weapons of Mass Creation Fest
Maybe it's the economic downturn, maybe it's the thirst for the unexpected. Truth is that more and more events are mixing different formats together.
A great example is WMC Fest. The event features 20 Speakers, 20 Designers and 30+ Musicians. The thinking is that by mixing these diverse performers true creativity arises.
The fact is that running an event that defines itself as a conference, art show and music festival attracts a larger audience. An audience that will be extremely happy if coherence is granted.
This model is by no means new, as events like SXSW made it extremely popular but more and more events are reinterpreting it for new purposes.
A concept cocktail, if ingredients mix well with each other, is indeed an interesting proposition.
Where: Cleveland, OH, USA.
Spotted on: A friend recommended it.
Website: WMC Fest
Forking: 99U
For those not familiar with forking, Wikipedia describes it as:
In software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it, creating a distinct piece of software.
In other words, take a concept, change what you don't like and create a new one.
In our case the original concept is TED, 99U is the fork.
Despite the organizers do not state it on the website, it is fairly obvious that they are positioning themselves as a TED prosecution. If in fact TED's motto is "Ideas Worth Spreading", 99U seeks 'perspiration' or idea execution.
The mission is definitely agreeable. It is common after watching a TED speech, to experience a feeling of inspiration mixed with a persistent voice that says 'Now What?' .
99U organizers fully embraced such feeling turning it in an event that takes TED a step further.
Where: NYC, NY, USA.
Spotted on: On my radar since 2009, first learned about it from a magazine.
Website: 99U
Bottom Up Pricing: Caravana de Emerxencia
The concept is fairly simple. Attendees decide what to pay for the event. No fixed pricing.
The simplicity of this approach is staggering, challenging, mind blowing. It can definitely make or break the event but it surely conveys a message.
The message being to give responsibility to our audience and treat them like adults. Another facet is to involve attendees to the extreme, to the extent that they decide the financial success of the initiative.
Of course this is not always possible. Some may see it as insulting to the profession or a way too risky approach to running events. Yet it is difficult to deny the disruptive power of such a simple message.
Where: Santiago, Spain.
Spotted on: On Springwise.
Website: Caravana de Emerxencia
Remote Audience Involvement: Hybrid Chocolate Tasting
This was a session I attended at BeConf, the annual meeting of MPI Belgium. The session was run by Ruud Janssen.
Different samples of belgian chocolate (yum) where sent around the world before the event to allow remote audiences to experience an hybrid tasting. It was a terrific experience.
You can learn everything about it together with super useful info on running hybrid events in the presentation below:
Where: Bruxelles, Belgium (and other cities around the world).
Spotted on: I was there.
Website: Hybrid Choc Tasting
Community Customisaztion: GLI.TC/H
As soon as you land on GLI.TC/H website you feel that your computer has been hacked. While I can ensure you that your computer won't be hacked, your mind probably will.
GLI.TC/H pushes the concept of collaborative event planning to the extreme. The event is structured in conversations or threads as you would expect in an online forum:
"GLI.TC/H 2112 consists of four participatory "threads". These threads will facilitate experimentation/conversation during the day and share "outputs" in the evenings."
The event is customised by the community. The community decides how to make it happen.
Even the website can be seen in a user defined style. While the less nerd reader may not understand such approach, the message is very powerful: allow attendees to define what, where, when and how and allow the community to customize the event.
Where: Chicago, IL, USA.
Spotted on: Kickstarter.
Website: GLI.TC/H
In Conclusion
What should you do with the above list? Read it and look for inspiration, you won't be disappointed.
The aim, do not forget, is to run a better event with a more engaging concept.
The idea at the core of your event should move audiences, disrupt, divide, unite and challenge old fashioned paradigms.
Don't be scared to innovate as the only real risk is to keep things as they are.
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NL Fun Run/Walk to be Sept. 16
IOWA CITY– The North Liberty Steering Committee of the Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce presents the ninth annual North Liberty Fun Run/Walk to be held on Sunday, Sept. 16. Sponsored by MidWestOne Bank, the event features a 5k route and children's race. The race starts at 650 W. Cherry St. near the gazebo at Liberty Centre. Registration begins at 8:15 a.m. with the children's race beginning at 9 a.m. followed by the 5k at 9:15 a.m.
Returning from the 2011 run is the competition for the Fast Feet Firefighting. The North Liberty Fire Department has issued a friendly challenge to surrounding fire departments to participate in the Fun Run in full firefighting gear. Firefighters who do so race free.
Each year, the chamber's North Liberty steering committee donates back to the community through a worthy organization. This year the committee will be supporting the American Heart Association. As in past years, the committee will also award $100 to the North Liberty school that recruits the most participants.
Pre-registration ends Sept. 6 and includes a free event T-shirt. After Sept. 6, participants should register the day of the event. Fun Run T-shirts will not be available on the day of the race, so pre-registration is encouraged. To register online visit www.iowacityarea.com. Or, download a registration form and mail it to:
Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce
325 E. Washington St., Ste. 100
Iowa City, IA 52240
Prizes will be awarded for the fastest male and female runners as well as all participants in costume. Pre-registration is $10 per person by Sept. 6 and $15 the day of the race. Children under the age of 12 race for free, but T-shirts must be purchased for $5 by 5 p.m. on Sept. 6. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.
Please contact Maggie at the chamber at 319-337-9637 for more information.


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On Monday, State Senate hopeful Tom Sullivan joined his friends, family and supporters at the Glendale Veterans Triangle to announce his candidacy under the Republican and Conservative party lines.
Sullivan has served in the United States Army Reserve and currently holds the rank of colonel. Over the past 25 years, he has served as a company commander in Iraq, a battalion commander in Afghanistan and a plans and operation officer in Kuwait.
Sullivan also has small business owner, community leader and financial business administrator on his resume.
"I will use my experience as a small business owner, as a military officer, as a financial expert, to reduce wasteful spending, lower property taxes and [stop] the overdevelopment of our communities that we call our own," Sullivan said. "I will defend our neighborhoods from the government's efforts to socially engineer our schools, our prison system, our homeless shelters."
Sullivan also said that he will do everything in his power to preserve democracy as a leader.
"I will impede the efforts of the random spreading of socialism across our democratic society," he said. "I will fight tirelessly to represent the people in this district, this great state of equality, Republicans, Conservatives, Democrats alike."
Joann Ariola, the chairwoman of the Queens Republican Party, said she's certain that Queens needs a candidate like Sullivan.
"We need to take candidates that we know can win, that can go up to Albany and bring the right agenda," she said. "And I don't mean far right. I just mean the right thoughts, the right platform, the right intentions, and that's what we have here with Tom Sullivan.
Councilman Eric Ulrich, the only Queens Republican in the City Council, is also on board with Sullivan's candidacy. He endorsed Sullivan on Monday, and is rooting for his success.
"We are supporting an outstanding candidate for State Senate, someone who wants to continue serving not only his country but his community as an elected official," Ulrich said. "He will do a terrific job and I'm proud to endorse him today and to help him get elected."
Other items on Sullivan's agenda are rebuilding south Queens, including Breezy Point, Broad Channel and Howard Beach, and putting money back into Rikers Island so that prisons aren't placed in local neighborhoods.
"It is not cost effective or productive, and it disenfranchises the public," he said.
The GOP candidate also wants to fund programs for the homeless so they can stay near support systems, rather than being placed in random communities.
Debbie, Sullivan's wife of 19 years, said she's fully supportive of her husband's endeavors into local politics.
"I'm very excited for him, very proud of him," she said. "For me, this was always a when, not an if."
"I knew someday in his life he was going to take a stab at this," she added, "and I think he's going to be really successful."


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Rape shield laws are supposed to protect victims from defense attorneys who would otherwise try to pry into their pasts. But when a 38-year-old man was accused of having oral sex with a 15-year-old girl, those laws broke down — an Arizona court ruled that his defense could use the information that she'd performed oral sex on two other men.
According to Feminist Law Professors, the judge in State ex rel. Montgomery v. Duncan ruled that evidence of the alleged victim's sexual history was admissible because it supported the defendant's assertion that he thought she was 18. Luckily, an appeals court didn't agree — it handed the decision back to the lower court, with this instruction:
It is not apparent to us how cross-examining the Victim on this evidence will aid in the truth-seeking process as to what Defendant's belief was as to the Victim's age. Thus, the only affirmative inquiry that needs to be made is whether Defendant, in his testimony, should be permitted to testify on direct about how the Victim's alleged statements that the Victim had previously engaged in oral sex led Defendant to conclude that the Victim was at least eighteen.
FLP's Colin Miller, however, argues that the victim's history shouldn't be admissible at all, even in the defendant's testimony. He points out that in a recent CDC study, "30% of females aged 15-17 reported giving oral sex to a male." So the fact that someone's had oral sex before is hardly compelling evidence that she's an adult. And if the defendant took it as such, he hadn't been reading the news, in which adults have been freaking out over teenagers' oral-sexing habits for at least a decade. All too often, discussions of victims' past sexual experiences turn into victim-blaming — she was slutty, she must have been asking for it, etc. This is exactly what rape shield laws are supposed to prevent. Hopefully the lower court will recognize this, and give the alleged victim the justice — and the protection — she deserves.
Taking Exception: Is Evidence Of Prior Oral Sex By 15 Year-Old Victim Admissible In Prosecution Of 38 Year-Old? [Feminist Law Professors]
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Profile: Rowan
You can call me… Rowan
I identify as… I don't really like using any of the technical terms used to describe people. Of course many people are comfortable identifying themselves in a few words, but I find it too hard to do for myself or other people. Since this site is mostly based on gender identity, I will say that I don't really feel like a boy or a girl.
As far as third-person pronouns go, … Though I haven't thought about the possibility of people using different pronouns for long at all, I don't think I really mind. If people assume I'm something other than what I was born as then I actually feel complimented by it, since I'm trying to escape the implications made by such things. I'm not really a fan of the hybrid ones though.
I'm attracted to… essentially, anyone. I have no gender preference or interest in sexual relationships, so my attractions are mostly only based on mentality, but it's important to add that I am completely open to polyamory.
When people talk about me, I want them to… forget about things being "weird" or even just different for a moment.
I want people to understand… other people, including myself. If this isn't possible, I want them to at least try, and to be kind, which people so often aren't in the face of something they don't understand.
About Rowan
Sometimes I want to tell everyone in the world that I have love and affection for them. I want to make beautiful stories for everyone to enjoy. I want to live a life that's simple and childlike but fun and exciting.
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Sue's #WritePhoto Prompt this week:
I thought I'd continue the adventures of Barbie and Ken!
On their quest for a more stimulating intimate life together, Barbie and Ken were trying to act out any fantasies they had.
Barbie got out of the car and looked around her.
"Seriously babe? I said I wanted Sex on the Beach… Not a Roll around in Seaweed!"
Ken looked perplexed…Where was the water?
Looking at the notice board that explained the high and low tides, he realised he'd blown it again.
And a little Haiku too…
A tide ebbs away
Revealing hidden nature
Soon to be covered
Ritu 2017


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While rounding, I was paged overhead to come down to ER for a stroke that had just arrived. Guy who can't move his right side.
So I'm sitting here in ER, watching him from the nurses' station, waiting for my turn to go in. Nurses are hooking him up to stuff, techs in there drawing blood, an EMT going over info with another nurse.
In the middle of this all the patient is lying there, calmly texting with his left hand.


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'They brought us here like they take a dead man to his grave,' Angela says. 'Then they forgot about us.' Angela and Zoltan live in metal cabins. Along with 75 Roma families they were forcibly evicted from their homes in 2004. It was just temporary, they were told. But six years later, the Roma still live in extremely uncertain circumstances. The cabins offer insufficient protection against rain and cold. The stench of the nearby sewage plant is terrible.
Angela and Zoltan keep dreaming of the day they can start a new life together. 'Only death will separate us, because we love each other so much,' Angela says. 'That's how it is. That's it.'


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Every Wednesday, Chase Christian of Encrypted Text invites you to enter the world of shadows, as we explore the secrets and mechanics of the rogue class. This week, we discuss the new abilities that we'll see as we level up in the upcoming expansion.
As I've mentioned several times before, rogues are often thought of as the "cooldown class." We've got a plethora of abilities, with nearly one (or two) for every situation. We're then regulated via cooldowns attached to each abilities, limiting how often we can use them. This gives the rogue class incredible potency in short fights, when our cooldowns are able to be used in quick succession. However, we have often stumbled in longer encounters, when our cooldowns are only active for a small percentage of the overall fight. Blizzard has been working on resolving this by reducing both the potency and the cooldown of a few of our moves, like Sprint, to give us more flexibility.
The DPS model for rogues hasn't change at all since The Burning Crusade. The only real addition was the creation of Mutilate and Envenom, which have been staples for rogues for years now. While Fan of Knives was a fun addition at level 80, its use on anything but trash has been limited at best. It's unsurprising that even though we're receiving three new abilities in Cataclysm versus BC's two, they're still all cooldown abilities. However, our new spells are actually incredibly fun and useful. They also take some skill to use properly, which is something that the rogue class needs desperately to get back to. Using your abilities wisely should yield a large reward -- and with that thought, I will now introduce the 2010 graduates of the Rogue Ability Academy.


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Learn about America's history through the eyes of John Adams and his family. Opportunity abounds for history and nature buffs alike at this Massachusetts park.
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Establishment attempts to ostracize Independents from voting for Paul
Paul Joseph Watson
Monday, January 9, 2012
The level of smear attacks against Ron Paul are getting so transparently agenda-driven that the press is now blaming Paul for spectacles they directly create, such as today's media swarm in a New Hampshire eatery that forced Paul to abandon a planned meet and greet with voters.
Planning to talk to supporters at Moe Joe's restaurant this morning, the event turned into a "media scrum" with Paul barely being able to move as he was chased around the restaurant by swarms of photographers.
"Ron Paul: We have you surrounded. We are the media," a strange man dressed as a wizard with an upside down black boot on his head blurted out through a megaphone.
"Paul decided to grant only one interview at the event, to Fox News's Brett Baeir. Halfway inside his SUV, Paul took questions for about five minutes from the cable news anchor while reporters strained to hear his answers, then shut the door," reports the Hill.
The Hill's Josh Lederman managed to find someone upset at the incident and twist the whole spectacle so as to blame Ron Paul himself, quoting a woman whose 90-year-old mother had wanted to meet Paul.
"She really wanted to meet him. She was really waiting to meet him," said her daughter. "I think he lost some votes."
"If I met him, looked him in the eye and liked him he would have gotten my vote tomorrow and instead I'm turned off," Heller told CNN.
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Heller, who voted for Obama in 2008, is now being quoted by innumerable mainstream news outlets in a bid to ostracize Independent voters from supporting Ron Paul.
The Guardian posted a You Tube interview with her, in which Heller is reluctant to admit that one of Ron Paul's staffers actually promised her a private meeting, a fact that contradicts the attempt to portray Paul's campaign as aloof and ignorant towards voters.
Respondents to The Hill story were vehement in their criticism of the media for creating the controversy out of nothing and then portraying Paul as the culprit.
"How did he lose votes because of this? The media swarmed him in a highly disrespectful manor and he takes the blame?" asked one.
"Why attempt to blame Doctor Paul for a media swarm? That makes no sense to me," commented another.
It's just the latest in a series of bizarre smears against Paul, another of which is the media's attempt to float the hoax that Paul's health is on the wane despite the fact that he is known for being addicted to physical health and a regular bike-rider.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infiowars Nightly News.
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Bringing you some news and gossip about the House Husbands of Hollywood. The Fox reality network show follows the lives of five men who happen to be househusbands. You can read more about the cast here.
Grant Reynolds – Aspiring actor and husband of "Good Day LA" anchor Jillian Reynolds. Jillian and Grant are currently expecting their second child, a boy. A photo of a very pregnant Jillian is below.
Darryl M. Bell – The former star of A Different World has been with girlfriend Tempest Bledsoe for 16 years. Tempest starred on The Cosby Show for years. In an interview with ET, the couple believes their relationship works because they are "very compatible." They also have no plans to get married, though they are pro-marriage.
Danny Barclay – Aspiring actor Danny is married to Katherine Barclay who is described as a "high-powered attorney." It's been reported that Katherine works for a powerful law firm than only accepts the top 1% of law school graduates. She practices under her maiden name to allow her some privacy. Danny also seems to be getting some acting gigs lately as shown on his IMDB actor's page.
Not much news to report on Charlie Mattera and Billy Ashley. Some of the fellas have twitter pages as listed below.
Charlie Mattera Twitter and Danny Barclay Twitter.
My thoughts on the show – Househusbands is one of those shows I had not planned on watching until I got hooked during a marathon. It's a pretty decent show. It doesn't have the drama factor as Bravo's housewives' series, but it is nonetheless entertaining to watch, as seeing life from the men's prospectives is sometimes humorous.
I noticed some viewers are giving Jillian Barberie Reynolds a hard time, but I actually see things differently when it comes to Grant and Jillian. Grant seems to have a superior passive aggressive way about him while Jillian seems more laid back and wanting to avoid conflict. Grant's behavior at the couple's dinner party was a bit telling and unnecessary. He seems a bit controlling and tends to overact to the "little things." He also needs to learn how to let things go, the way he went on and on and on and on about Jillian's spending was draining to watch. He might have had a valid point but went about it the wrong way. I'm surprised these two are having another baby instead of heading to divorce court. They need a lot of help/counseling for their marriage to work. They seem very mismatched and sometimes act like they genuinely do not like each other.
Tempest and Darryl seem very stable. They do bicker quite a bit, but it seems mostly playful. Whatever they're doing as a couple seems to be working for them.
Danny and Katherine are an interesting couple to watch. Bringing a baby into their current marital equation would definitely be a recipe for disaster. Danny does need to be more assertive as a husband. He needs to do something with his time while he tries to get the acting thing going. A part time job that allows him the flexibility to be an actor would be ideal. He needs to realize that he's still the man of the house, and needs to bring home some bacon, no matter how little. Unlike most of the other husbands, he has no kids to take care of, nor does he help his wife with her job/business. If he continues to go his current route, it will only be a matter of time before Katherine begins to lose respect for him.
Billy and Lisa seem to have a stable and loving marriage though Lisa comes off as being annoying and self absorbed at times.
Charlie with the absentee wife, might want to stop mentioning just how unplanned his son's birth was. We get it already! You went to Cabo and there came a baby 9 months later. Charlie otherwise seems like a loving father. The problem with filming reality shows is that everything you say and do is made permanently public.
Tell Us – What Are Your Thoughts On The House Husbands of Hollywood?
Grant Reynolds with wife, Jillian Barbarie Reynolds
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NEW YORK (AP) — Is there anything Ang Lee can't do?
The pithy answer might be: Large, angry, green men. Yes, Lee's "Hulk" was not well received. But in his incredibly varied filmography, Lee has steadily steered films that could very well have turned disastrous into box-office hits and Oscar bait.
Combining martial arts with drama? "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" became the highest grossing foreign language film ever, more than double any previous foreign film. A film about gay cowboys? "Brokeback Mountain" went on to be nominated for eight Oscars, winning three including best director.
Few filmmakers have been so drawn to such delicate material where even slight shifts in tone or execution could mean the difference between a hit or a flop. That couldn't be truer for Lee's new film, "Life of Pi," a supreme balancing act for a filmmaker accustomed to working on tightropes.
In an interview the day after "Life of Pi" premiered at the New York Film Festival in September, Lee sat down with obvious relief. Asked how he was doing, Lee exhaled: "Better than I thought."
The first screening had gone well: the 3-D "Life of Pi" was greeted as a success and immediately added to the Oscar race. For even Lee, knowing which side of the sword a film of his will fall isn't clear until the first audience sees it.
"I've been holding this anxiety for a long time. It's an expensive movie," says Lee. "It's really like the irrational number of pi. For a long time it felt that way — not making sense."
"Life of Pi," which 20th Century Fox will release Wednesday, contains, Lee says, "all the no's" of filmmaking: kid actors, live animals and oceans of water. It's adapted from Yann Martel's best-selling 2001 novel, in which a deadly shipwreck maroons a boy (Suraj Sharma) on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger.
Not only does filming such a tale involve considerable challenges, the story is ultimately a spiritual journey — and matters of God and faith are far from typical blockbuster fodder. For those reasons and others, the project went through several previously attached directors, including Alfonso Cuaron, M. Night Shyamalan and Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
Lee, then, was a kind of savior, one of few directors capable of corralling all the difficult elements of "Life of Pi." His imprimatur helps carry it, given that the cast is one of unknowns (Sharma, only 17 when cast, hadn't previously acted), digital creations (a combination of real tigers and digital effects were used) and international actors (Irrfan Khan, Gerard Depardieu).
Tobey Maguire, who starred in Lee's "The Ice Storm" and "Ride With the Devil," was initially meant to give the film a dose of star power, but he was recast (with Rafe Spall) after proving an awkward fit.
Elizabeth Gabler, president of Fox 2000 Pictures, calls the film — whose budget exceeded $100 million — a huge gamble. The international cast and the PG-13 rating, Gabler says, will hopefully make "Life of Pi" ''an international adventure for people of all ages."
"Why do I dare, a Chinese director, do Jane Austen when I still speak pidgin English?" Lee says, referring to his 1995 film "Sense and Sensibility." ''It's still a leap of faith, you're taking a risk. Every movie is unknown. If it's known, then no studio would lose money."
Lee was born and raised in Taiwan, where he initially pursued acting. Artistic endeavor in '60s and '70s Taiwan, he says, was considered a low profession and not the choice of his father. Ever since, patriarchs have been a connecting tissue in Lee's protean filmography. Responding to a comment that father figures — including one in "Life of Pi" — have often been focal points in his films, Lee corrects: "I think always."
"I never rebelled against him but he told me what I do is," he says. "The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against. My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic."
Lee emigrated from Taiwan to attend college at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and then film school at New York University. The 58-year-old still lives in the New York area, the Westchester suburbs, with his wife and two sons.
His first three films, all in Mandarin and revolving around Chinese families, were followed by a distinct break with "Sense and Sensibility," his Hollywood arrival. But it was 1997's "The Ice Storm," an adaptation of Rick Moody's novel about a Connecticut family's disaster in the swinging '70s, that Lee says changed his perception of filmmaking and set him on a new path.
"A movie is really provocation," says Lee. "It's not a message, it's not a statement. Before I thought: I have a story to tell, not even thinking of myself as an auteur. But that is a precious lesson to me, to take a step back — a respectful step back."
"Something about cinema, how it works in wonders, you just have to respect it," he adds. "You should never believe fully like you know."
"Life of Pi" was certainly full of its own lessons and trials. Lee spent a year making a 70-minute pre-visual animation of the middle chunk of the film set at sea. He had a giant water tank built in an abandoned airport in his native Taiwan, ("Taiwan will do anything for me," he joked at the NYFF). Still, because of the considerable technical challenges, he says he only got an eighth of his planned shot list.
He was led to 3-D not by James Cameron's "Avatar," which was released after planning on "Life of Pi" began, but by searching for "another dimension" to tell such a story. The results, achieved with cinematographer Claudio Miranda, are perhaps the best 3-D work since "Avatar," including a memorable flying fish scene and the glorious visuals of a whale surfacing in moonlight.
For the film's young star, the gentle, humble, self-deprecating Lee was a mentor.
"He makes you so calm that you just let him mold you into whatever he wants to mold you into," Sharma says. "He really showed me that I could do a lot more than I ever thought I was capable of doing."
Lee may be "a Zen master" like Sharma claims, but his tranquility won't abide one thing: Anyone who doesn't cherish the precious chance to make a movie. "If you don't give 100 percent, I get mad," he says.
It's enough of an all-consuming process that Lee doesn't contemplate his next film until he has seen through the present one.
He says: "I'm still surviving this one."
JAKE COYLE, AP Entertainment Writer


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A man who had been drinking vodka and beer to steady his nerves while on his first flight ever attempted to open the plane's main door, thinking it was the bathroom.
Tomasz Mucha, 26, was on a Ryanair flight traveling from Krakow, Poland to Dublin, Ireland when he lifted the handle of door, the Irish Independent reported. Dublin District Court reported that the only thing that stopped him from opening the door at the rear of the plane was the air pressure.
Mucha admitted being drunk on the flight and using threatening, abusive or insulting behavior when charged with offenses under the Air Navigation and Transport Act. Muncha told staff on the plane that he consumed alcohol because it was the first time he had ever been on a plane and he was nervous.